Meet the men and women who bring you Ohio's best coverage of politics:

Washington Bureau senior writer Elizabeth Auster covers public policy and politics, including national elections, and has written extensively about presidents, social welfare issues, taxes and Social Security. She writes a regular column for The Plain Dealer's Forum section. She can be reached at eauster@plaind.com.

Washington Bureau reporter Sabrina Eaton has covered Congress and national affairs for The Plain Dealer since 1994, focusing primarily on the House of Representatives, the Ohio congressional delegation and agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency. Experienced at covering presidential and congressional elections, she can be reached at seaton@plaind.com.

Columbus Bureau reporter Reginald Fields concentrates on legal issues and also covers the Ohio Supreme Court and the Attorney General's office. He can be reached at rfields@plaind.com.

Washington Bureau Chief Stephen Koff covers national affairs and politics, oversees the newspaper's Washington coverage and helps coordinate its national political report, including presidential and congressional elections. He can be reached at skoff@plaind.com.

Brent Larkin, a lifelong resident of Greater Cleveland, worked at the Cleveland Press from 1970 to 1981. From 1971 to 1976 he covered Cleveland City Hall and in 1976 was named the newspaper's politics editor. He joined The Plain Dealer in 1981, first as politics writer and later as a columnist. In 1991, he was named to direct the newspaper's opinion pages. In October of 2002, Larkin, was inducted into The Cleveland Press Club's Hall of Fame. He can be reached at blarkin@plaind.com.

Columbus bureau reporter Aaron Marshall focuses on covering the state legislature with an emphasis on Ohio's state budget and the ongoing battle over school funding. He can be contacted at amarshall@plaind.com.

Mark Naymik joined The Plain Dealer's Lorain County bureau in 2000 and become politics writer in 2001. He has covered local and state races and followed the 2004 presidential campaigns in Ohio. He previously worked for three weekly newspapers, including Philadelphia's City Paper and Cleveland Scene. He can be reached at mnaymik@plaind.com.

Mark Rollenhagen, Columbus bureau chief, has worked in Ohio journalism
for nearly 20 years, the last 16 as a reporter and editor for The Plain
Dealer. Until recently part of the PD's enterprise team, Mark has also covered
federal courts, county government and aviation and directed cops and
courts coverage as an assistant city editor. From 1987 to 1990, Mark worked as a reporter at the Toledo Blade, covering courts, county government and health care. Before that, he was
a reporter for the Harrisburg Patriot-News in Pennsylvania.

V. David Sartin joined The Plain Dealer in 1972 and has covered Cleveland City Hall, suburban and county governments and several public agencies.
While serving as state editor and an assistant metropolitan editor, Sartin worked with reporters covering presidential and gubernatorial elections and coordinated public opinion polls sponsored by the newspaper. He will write a column analyzing political advertising in the 2008 election. He can be reached at dsartin@plaind.com.

Thomas Suddes, a native of Youngstown, Suddes joined The Plain Dealer in 1982; the next year, he transferred to the newspaper's Columbus bureau, where for 17 years
he covered the Ohio General Assembly and the state budget. While at the
Statehouse, Suddes was also elected president of the century-old Ohio
Legislative Correspondents Association. His Plain Dealer column on Ohio
government and politics, which appears on Sundays, began in 1985. Late in
2000, Suddes left the newspaper's staff to seek a doctorate in mass
communication at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in
Athens. He returned to The Plain Dealer in 2007 as a part-time editorial
writer. To contact Thomas Suddes: tsuddes@gmail.com .

OPEN Editor Jean Dubail has worked at The Plain Dealer for 15 years as reporter, assistant metro editor, editorial writer, metro editor and, since 2006, PD Assistant Managing Editor/Online. He can be reached at open@plaind.com.